Religion Universe: Taoism, TAOISM

Religion Universe: Taoism, TAOISM: "TAOISM
Daoism is China's indigenous traditional religion; its name stems from 'Dao' being its highest object of faith.
The core of its belief is that by engaging in a process of Cultivation and Refinement, man can attain to a state of Immortality.
Daoist religion reveres Laozi as its Founder; its primary scripture is Laozi's Book of Dao and its Virtue.
Daoism has formed itself gradually over the ages, building upon the ancient Chinese worship of Heaven and Ancestors as its foundation, taking Daoist philosophy as its primary ideological source, absorbing concepts from the Yin-Yang, Mohist, Confucianist and Legalist schools, and adhering to the essential path of cultivation of the Magic and Immortality and Huang-Lao traditions.
Since its formation in the middle of the Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220 AD), Daoist religion has undergone phases of formation, reform, flourishing and development, division into sects, and gradual decline, over a period of almost two thousand years. "